Slugs...urghhhh!!!!

Hello my greenfingered friends,

Just wondered if anyone has any tips of getting rid of slugs? I've tried the lager thing, but it makes me feel sick when disposing of bodies.
Why do we get so many??? anyone know??

Any advice on how to get rid of them would be really appreciated...o and snails aswell if poss..hee hee - being cheeky now aren't i?

 

Hi Am - beats me. I get tons of the things and the only thing I can do is to kill them, which I hate to do. I will hopefully be getting some natural help in the form of frogs when I get the pond sorted out! :D

 

Still waiting for my pond to get residents!

In the meantime, I just put on a pair of disposable gloves - plastic kind - and pick up the little blighters and put the in a plastic bag or container. Then I walk several hundred yards to a nearby heathland and deposit them en mass! As I walk home I like to imagine the conversation:-

"Where are we?"
"What just happened?"
"I dunno! But what became of that luscious leaf I was eating?"
Sigh "Guess we'd better get home before the light comes back!"
"Good idea - ready, guys? Right - slooooow march!!"

(In other words, rumour has it they come back like homing pigeons!)

 

Send me some !!! i hate 'em. Have to get the other half to remove them....urgh.

Your lucky having a pond. I love the tadpoles, so cute! There good to put on your window ledge and watch the little ones grow and grow.

Get sortin your pond out Dave...hehe

 

Dont worry, a garden of about an acre in Manchester kept records of how many snails they disposed off over I think ten years. It was 250,000.

 

Ha ha ha Your last message made me laugh out loud!!

Thanks Mr Masdaisy...hehe :D

 

I have had terrible problems with slugs in my garden for 37 years!

Until last year that is, built my first small pond, and the very next day that I filled it with water there was the largest frog in it that I have even seen! (didn't even have any plants in it)

Result, never saw any slugs all last year, and I had the best looking hostas ever.

Funny thing is, the frog was only there for a week, quite friendly, did'nt seem to mind us.
I presume he eat all the parent slugs in the first place and that was it. Read somewhere recently each female slug has up to 30,000 babies!!! There is a moral there somewhere.

 

That figure doesn't suprise me, they must mate like i don't know what! urgh, just remembered a wildlife programme i saw years ago where it showed how they mate.....why o why did i have to think of that!!!!

 

Another little point, snails are the damagers of plants. Most slugs only eat decaying plant material and each other. Mind walking down the road and seeing 5 huge black slugs gathered round a pile of dog poo and tucking into it was a bit off a shock!

 

I only have a back yard, wish i could have a pond, that seems to be the best thing to get rid of the...went to say "little blighters" but some of them are huge!

I suppose i'll have to resort back to the "lager technique"

 

O my word!!!! that's gross!!! i didn't realise that they ate EACH OTHER! foul creatures.

 

They do say that the most effective way to get rid of slugs is to mow the grass in the middle of the night!

Well, you could mount a couple of headlamps on the mower I suppose! Probably be arrested though?

 

does anything ever really get rid of slugs? The only things I've found efective are short term, like using copper tape around your pots. Does the use of nematodes actually work? If it does, I'll give it a try. Any advice,,anybody?

 

Not from me,sorry.

I find the Lager technique does work. you should try this, if only for a laugh.
Almost immediately you will see the slugs making a bee-line for the lager, it is very amusing to watch as thye look like there queing up!!

Looks like its 'first come, first served'

They obviously like a bevvy!!! hehe
(Sweet Pea, formerly known as 'Am')

 

I am out late at night with a torch.